Mackenzie Astin Quotes
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
